Empirical Study of deployment of drilling and education theory of "Hotoku education" in Showa Prewar

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780489
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: SUDA Masashi 東洋大学, 文学部, 准教授 (00549678)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 報徳教育 / 錬成 / 児童常会 / 学校仕法論 / 1930年代 / 新興報徳運動 / 学校常会 / 初期社会科

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The 1930s, there was a erected boom of "Kinjiro statue" in the schoolyard across the country. In Shizuoka, Toyama and Fukushima, Kanagawa, Tochigi, Shimane, etc., let a look back the life to the children themselves, and to think of their own life improvement, the so-called "Hotoku education" had been created.
Especially Kanagawa Prefecture Fukuzawa elementary school, after the war, continued to research to focus the "independence" of the children, had been developed as a coursework theory and teaching theory of "discussion activities".
This study has clarified the reality of "Hotoku education".

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教育史